Salvia can induce a deep state of psychosis similar to that of mushrooms and yet it's still legal and widely distributed. Marijuana on the other hand has a much more mild effect that can last for hours yet it's illegal. Comparing the two, they both impair your sense of judgment and the ability to operate machinery such as a car yet users of Salvia have no legal pressure while Marijuana users flee at any sign of law enforcement. Why is Salvia legal yet Marijuana is still illegal in the United States?

if salvia is legal then so shuld marijuana. i guess if eveyone didn't smoke then it'd be. My friends and I tried some salvia the other day, the effect of the it was alot worse then i expected for my first time. we didnt rele like it too much, it was pretty scarry. if you're use to it then i guess you could control it, just like marijuana. but even the first time i was high wasn't that trippy. I wanna go into my trip but i guess i wont. :p my friend has cancer and we're pretty sure he had a seizer after a few hits.. To me, marijuana is WAY less harmful. salvia's good if u want to trip out.

there is no reason they need to ban all the plants god gave us, after all this is a god country- the u.s. so we should fight to keep our right to chillax and have good mental images if we want to.
http://www.freshsalvia.com/blog read more about marijuana and salvia prohibitions here

Salvia wasn't popular until just recently. Hell I never heard of it until a few years ago.If marijuana wasn't so popular it would be legal too. I blame everyone in the 1930's for acting such a fool that they had to make it illegal. If you watch refer madness you'llsee just how people acted on it back then. I'd probably make it illegal too if someone acted like a fuckin idiot. I am a smoker, but I can see why they did make it illegal is all I'm saying. Give enough time someone will do something idiotic enough to make salvia illegal too. Watch!!

You do realise Reefer Madness is completely made up? Nobody ever did any of the crap that happened in that film, at least not because of marijuana use. The film is complete propaganda, much like all the 'educational' films of that era espousing the evils of homosexuality, feminism and communism.

I understand that some people may regret doing it, but i still believe fully that the decision should be up to the user whether or not to use a drug such as marijuana. The government has definatly gone overboard in trying to protect us from ourselves.

Should all be legal. The economic advantages to keeping marijuana (and all other drugs) illegal in the past have been for the pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, lawyers and medical Drs.' profit (and see below regarding the textile industry that has poisoned thousands with their chemical processes - and the real dirty technology that is used to keep us supplied with *legal* drugs). Save one here, kill one or three there - fair enough on the face of it? I think not.

The one that really frosts me is that private prisons have been built to house people who have been convicted of drug violations and those inmates are being used as slave labor - *and* more than 50% are black men under the age of 30. Licensed racism by our government.

Up until now, keeping drugs illegal was profitable - at least for a small segment of our society there has been huge profit - now, we look at who's really paying the price and it's us. We pay for Doctors' visits so we can be prescribed very expensive drugs with unknown side-effects that send us back to the doctor so that our insurance companies can pay only a fraction of these bills.

Meanwhile, we're spending billions on drug enforcement and interdiction that has failed to keep the drugs we *want* and that would most benefit the majority...'

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Should all be legal. The economic advantages to keeping marijuana (and all other drugs) illegal in the past have been for the pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, lawyers and medical Drs.' profit (and see below regarding the textile industry that has poisoned thousands with their chemical processes - and the real dirty technology that is used to keep us supplied with *legal* drugs). Save one here, kill one or three there - fair enough on the face of it? I think not.

The one that really frosts me is that private prisons have been built to house people who have been convicted of drug violations and those inmates are being used as slave labor - *and* more than 50% are black men under the age of 30. Licensed racism by our government.

Up until now, keeping drugs illegal was profitable - at least for a small segment of our society there has been huge profit - now, we look at who's really paying the price and it's us. We pay for Doctors' visits so we can be prescribed very expensive drugs with unknown side-effects that send us back to the doctor so that our insurance companies can pay only a fraction of these bills.

Meanwhile, we're spending billions on drug enforcement and interdiction that has failed to keep the drugs we *want* and that would most benefit the majority of people without a doctors' visit or an inusrance claim, much healthier and certainly happier.

Then let's look at what we spend on border patrol - not to keep the illegal tresspassers out but to keep the drugs out (supposedly). And then let's look at what we spend on housing inmates in our "over-crowded" jails and mandatory treatment programs. The lawyers get all the big bucks there and the "criminals" get the shaft anyway.

Seems like we could spend the money we spend on the Drug War on saving the Polar Bears, or building a high speed rail system, or even developing the technology to take us to Mars. What in the world have we been thinking, following the mis-leadership of this country blindly without questioning the motives behind this "policy"?

It's time.
Make it all legal and pour money into educating people about the hazards of *legal* drug use (the kids are stealing parent's prescription drugs - not illegal drugs) and we could just send all those DEA cops to the Borders. Without their insatiable search for drugs, maybe they'd be able to to do their job of keeping the terrorists out for a change?

Should be legal. Most people do not know the properties of Salvia, other than it has pretty flowers. Just like Foxglove has gorgeous flowers but is the prime component of Digitalis (for heart arrhythmia) too much and it can kill a being. Or Purple Coneflower (Echinacea Angustifolia) of which the root has immune-enhancing properties. Just because a NATURAL plant CAN be turned into something else that can either help or hurt a being--does that mean ALL of them should be illegalized???? I think not. Pot should never have been illegalized in the first place. We can thank the pharmacorps for that one.

I've never tried Salvia, so I can't say much about that, but I've smoked Marijuana since I was a preteen. I wouldn't recommend it for kids, in fact I do wish I were older before I was first introduced to it, but I really feel it should be just as legal as alcohol. I've seen alcohol draw violence and meanest out of people, From all the people I've seen smoke pot, it mellows them out. I don't smoke as much as I used to nor do I drink as much as I used to, but I don't believe marijuana to be any more habit forming as alcohol. As I am a little curious about Salvia, I doubt I'll ever try it. A little alcohol and a little weed is all the mind altering drugs I need in my life.

Specifically because it IS mostly harmless. The bible-thumping wackos hate it because, unlike tobacco, there is no horrible and painful "wages of sin" (ie: cancer, emphysema, etc) for this pleasure; and, during the 20s and 30s, the legislative powers that be used the criminalization of marihuana to control the hispanic migrant-worker populations in the south and west.

By the way, for a hilarious movie evening, check out "Reefer Madness" some time - did you know marihuana can make you have wanton sex, drive over the speed limit, go psycho, and kill someone?!?

That's funny, altho I've never driven over the limit--usually a little under. But then, I dont drive like that now--older, wiser and all that jazz. I usually just clean the house...really slow=) What the hell is salvia?

I don't know much about Salvia other than when I was employed in the Horticulture field I thought it was a pretty plant. About Marijuana, I believe if America would legalize it, it would knock a huge hole in the Cartel's earnings, perhaps this would also solve some of the violence taking place in America, and keep many of them out of America

If it can be estables that no core of social reponsibility is hurt by it being legal then why not?The integrating and balancing of what is good for our community is more of the imput that we must use in both salvia and marijuana then if it should be legal or not!

That Salvia stuff...never tried it and don't care to. However,
I am here to inform you younger people that good "Hooch"
does not prevent you from driving a car, cleaning house,
doing lawn work...IF YOU DON'T ABUSE IT. Marijuna has alot of medicinal benefits as I've stated before. Now, if you sit around and smoke a whole joint by yourself, you'll be like a jello mold and won't be able to get off of the damn couch. A few tokes off of "good stuff" and you can do anything anybody else can and probably better!

...most of our legislators, like many people responding on this board, have never heard of salvia. But rest assured, if people are having fun with it, and the legislature gets wind of it, they will make it illegal.

Neither should be illegal. It is not the governments business to legislate morality, choice or adult decision making capacity. If someone wants to use drugs that should be their decision.
And I do not use drugs by the way.

i dont really think taht they r that bad, but that is just an opinion, i dont do any of these things, but i agree with some of the ppl on this thing that it isnt my desicion or however u spell it to say it is to be made illegal. even if it mattered what my opinion was, i wouldnt do it bc it helps some ppl and it makes some ppl happy and then the other ppl that do it for fun r just going to end up regretting it. but whatever floats ur boat. lol

It was made illegal to stop the use of hemp. Hemp can be used for Food, Fuel, Clothing and Textiles, Cosmetics, Paper, and Building Materials. The big problem with hemp is that it can grow wild under many conditions and is not under the ownership control that artificial fibers are which started with the invention of artificial fibers in the late thirties by DuPont. William Hearst also was involved as he supplied most of the US with paper made from wood pulp. Making paper from hemp, while much more efficient and eco-friendly AND a very long history, would have cost Hearst many millions. Marijuana, along with its non-psychoactive version hemp, was made illegal in 1937. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...